THIS WEEK: iRacing Petit Le Mans powered by VCO | Special Event
September 21st, 2026 by Justin Melillo
iRacing’s Special Event calendar features a selection of the world’s most compelling races across numerous disciplines. Whether you’re interested in stock cars or sports cars, open-wheel formula cars or sprint cars, sticking to pavement or playing in the dirt, running solo or racing with a team of your closest friends, our Special Events have something for everyone!
This week, the iRacing Petit Le Mans Presented by VCO takes the spotlight with the machines of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship taking on Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta in a 10-hour, multi-class team endurance showdown.
Here’s everything you need to know about participating in this iRacing Special Event.
TRACK: MICHELIN RACEWAY ROAD ATLANTA
CARS COMPETING: GTP/HY Class
- Acura ARX-06 GTP
- Aston Martin Valyrie AMR-LMH
- BMW M Hybrid V8 (Evo)
- Cadillac V-Series.R GTP
- Ferrari 499P
- Porsche 963 GTP
CARS COMPETING: LMP2 Class
CARS COMPETING: GTD Class
- Acura NSX GT3 EVO 22
- Aston Martin Vantage GT3 EVO
- BMW M4 GT3 EVO
- Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R
- Ferrari 296 GT3
- Ford Mustang GT3
- Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO
- McLaren 720S GT3 EVO
- Mercedes-AMG GT3 2020
- Porsche 911 GT3 R (992)
BROADCAST DETAILS
There will be a broadcast of the Top Split broadcast for the third time slot, the Saturday 12:00 GMT, or Saturday 8 a.m. ET event. RACESPOT will be handling the call of the action. The show will be available at iRacing.com/live.
TIMES TO RACE
- Timeslot #1: Friday at 22:00 GMT (6:00 p.m. ET)
- Timeslot #2: Saturday at 7:00 GMT (3:00 a.m. ET)
- Timeslot #3: Saturday at 12:00 GMT (8:00 a.m. ET) <- BROADCASTED SPLIT
- Timeslot #4: Saturday at 16:00 GMT (12:00 p.m. ET)
- Timeslot #5: Sunday at 00:00 GMT (8:00 p.m. ET Saturday)
ABOUT THE 2026 iRACING PETIT LE MANS
Petit Le Mans is a 10 hour endurance race held annually at Road Atlanta in Braselton, Georgia. It is a marquee event in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship.
This weekend, from September 25th to the 27th, iRacing members can sign up with a team to take on Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta for a 10 hour endurance in the iRacing multiclass, team racing format. This race is an open setup event and will be scheduled in the sim for October 3rd at 10:55 AM. Dynamic weather is enabled as well. Please plan accordingly with your team for this 10 hour long event!
Participating teams are required to declare their drivers at registration. A team is officially eligible at a minimum of two drivers, and up to a maximum of 16 drivers. With fair share enabled, all declared drivers will have to meet a threshold of laps in conjunction with the team’s total laps for the entry to be legal by the end of the event. Registration opens 60 minutes prior, and sessions will include both a 30 minute warmup and an eight minute, two lap qualifying session. Splits are determined by iRating.
This event is open to iRacing members that have a Sports Car license at Class C or higher, or at Class D with a 4.0 Safety Rating. Splits can have up to 60 teams, and a disqualification limit has been set at 150 incident points, or 150X per team. Stop and Go penalties will be administered after 50 incidents, or 50X, and every 20 incidents (20X) afterward until the limit is reached and disqualification occurs.
Every car in the field has been BOP adjusted in some way or fashion, whether it be in the fuel, the weight, or the power. Those numbers are available now, but could potentially be updated on Wednesday prior to the event. Those numbers are available on the iRacing Forum post here.
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ABOUT MICHELIN RACEWAY ROAD ATLANTA
If they built a roller-coaster for road-racing drivers, it would look a lot like Road Atlanta. The 2.54-mile hill-and-dale 12-turn circuit nestled in the red-earth hill country 35 miles north of Atlanta, Georgia is home to IMSA’s Petit Le Mans sports car endurance race, the race which this Special Event is emulating.
Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta also hosts Sports Car Club of America professional, national and regional amateur sports car racing (Road Atlanta was for 23 years home to the SCCA’s National Championship Runoffs) as well as numerous other professional and amateur motorcycle racing, karting, drifting and Skip Barber Racing schools and race meets.
From the day the track opened in the fall of 1970, drivers have found themselves alternately mesmerized and terrified by the serpentine rhythms of this challenging race track. A single lap begins with a gut-sucking very fast uphill right-hand sweeper, followed by a left-hander over the crest of a hill, and right into the downhill and uphill combination called the Esses. Then a brief downhill straightaway, followed by the banked 90-degree fast Turn 6 and almost immediate hard braking for the slowest, tightest corner on the course. Turn 7 leads onto the so-called back straight, which actually wends its pedal-to-the-metal way right and left and up over a crest and then down a hill.
A gentle right followed by a sharp left-right chicane were added in 1996, eliminating perhaps the scariest few hundred feet of pavement in North America: Road Atlanta’s notorious “dip,” a suspension-bottoming down-and-up taken by really fast cars at nearly 200 mph . . . which was followed by hard braking up a hill and through the thread-the-needle, blind-apex, under-the-bridge Turn 11, which is today negotiated under slightly less frenetic circumstances. But the fast downhill run through the sweeping right-hand Turn 12 onto the pit straight is just as hair-raising as it ever was. That’s one lap of Road Atlanta; repeat as necessary.
To learn more about the event and join in on the discussion, visit our Special Events page and head over to the iRacing Forums.
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